The False Gods Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CCDC EEFE GGAG HHIH JJKJ LLFL| We are false and evanescent and aware of our deceit | A |
| From the straw that is our vitals to the clay that is our feet | A |
| You may serve us if you must and you shall have your wage of ashes | B |
| Though arrears due thereafter may be hard for you to meet | A |
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| You may swear that we are solid you may say that we are strong | C |
| But we know that we are neither and we say that you are wrong | C |
| You may find an easy worship in acclaiming our indulgence | D |
| But your large admiration of us now is not for long | C |
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| If your doom is to adore us with a doubt that's never still | E |
| And you pray to see our faces pray in earnest and you will | E |
| You may gaze at us and live and live assured of our confusion | F |
| For the False Gods are mortal and are made for you to kill | E |
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| And you may as well observe while apprehensively at ease | G |
| With an Art that's inorganic and is anything you please | G |
| That anon your newest ruin may lie crumbling unregarded | A |
| Like an old shrine forgotten in a forest of new trees | G |
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| Howsoever like no other be the mode you may employ | H |
| There's an order in the ages for the ages to enjoy | H |
| Though the temples you are shaping and the passions you are singing | I |
| Are a long way from Athens and a longer way from Troy | H |
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| When we promise more than ever of what never shall arrive | J |
| And you seem a little more than ordinarily alive | J |
| Make a note that you are sure you understand our obligations | K |
| For there's grief always auditing where two and two are five | J |
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| There was this for us to say and there was this for you to know | L |
| Though it humbles and it hurts us when we have to tell you so | L |
| If you doubt the only truth in all our perjured composition | F |
| May the True Gods attend you and forget us when we go | L |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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